Pneuma amp settings — Laney Lx12

The Tool guitar tone for “Pneuma”, dialed in for a Laney Lx12 with a Jackson JS32 Dinky. Studio version, Fear Inoculum (2019) — main heavy progressive riff

Original rig

1979 Gibson Les Paul Custom Silverburst (Seymour Duncan Distortion) into Diezel VH4 (Channel 3) blended with vintage Marshall Super Bass and Boss DD-3 / MXR Carbon Copy delay

Thick, articulate, mid-heavy high-gain crunch with tight percussive low end and analog delay repeats

Amp settings — Laney Lx12

CHANNELCleanBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	6
Mid	7
Treble	5
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01MXR Fullbore Metal

Gain source — run into clean channel with Scoop switch OFF and Gate ON

Volume 6 · Freq 6 · Gain 6 · Low 5 · Mid 7 · High 5

02Boss DM-2W Waza Delay

Custom mode, run direct into amp input for rhythmic spatial repeats

Repeat Rate 5 · Intensity 4 · Echo 4

Why these settings

The Laney LX12 has no presence control and its small 6-inch speaker cannot replicate the massive low-end authority of a Diezel VH4. To avoid harsh, muddy solid-state clipping, the amp is set clean at low gain while your owned MXR Fullbore Metal acts as the primary high-gain engine. The Fullbore's mid knob is pushed with the scoop button off to recreate Adam Jones's focused, punchy midrange grind.

PRO TIPAdam Jones's heavy chug relies heavily on aggressive, percussive downpicking close to the bridge saddles combined with tight palm-muting to give the low D dropped-tuning its metallic, rhythmic punch.

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